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house niggers, and then old Master jest grumble to satisfy the doctor. Down in the quarters we bM the spinning house, where the old. woman

card the wool and. run the loom. They made double weave for the winter time, and all the white folks and slaves had. good. clothes and good. food.

	Master made us all eat all we could hold. He would come to the smokehouse and look in and. say, “You niggers aintt cutting down that smoke side and that souse ~sk you o~ht to t You made dat meat and you got to help eat it U~i~

	sever no work on Sunday tceptjng the regular chores. Th~ over— looker made everybody clean up and wash de children up and after the praying we had games. Autny over and marbles and “I Spy“ and de likes of that. Some times de boys would go down in de woods and git a possi~m. I love possum and.~ sweet taters, but de coon meat more delicate and de har don‘t stink up de meat.

	•1 wasntt at the quarters much as a boy. I was at the big house with my mammy, and. I had. to swing the fly bresh over my old Mistre?s when she was sewing or eating or taking her nap. Sometime I would keep the flies off‘n old Master, and when I would get tired and let the bresh slap his neck he would kick at me and cuss me, but he never did reach me. He I~iad a way of keeping us little niggers scared to death and never hurtingnobody.

	I was down in the field burning bresh when I first hear&the guns in the War. De fighting was de battle at I~ingston, North Carolina, and it lasted four days and nights. After while bunches of Sesesh come riding by hauling wounded. people in wagons, and then pretty soon big bunches of Yax~kees come by, but dey didntt acklike d.ey was trying very hard. to ketch up.

	Dey Shad de coimt ry in charge qui t e s oxne t line ‚ and. they had. f orages comii~ ro~un&a].]~the ti~me. ~ By .dat. time old.Master done buried. 14,s money and. all tie silver and. de big clock, ~but the Yankees didn~t ~ar to search out dat